a pretext for void against iraq. thank you. hello and welcome to our c twenty four hour news live from moscow i'm us of our town main story now tens of thousands of people in tunisia have been celebrating the fast of us or of the country's revolution which i was through dictator ben ali after almost twenty five years in power they are prizing was this park where the arab spring was shocked almost twenty countries across north america now africa rather and the middle east but even after elections and calls for change remain strong there as are going to be finding out. a year ago mohamed bouazizi set himself retired to protest against the authorities in tunisia unleashing public frie over corruption and poverty which led to the our syrian president ben ali a wave of revolt spread to other countries and the arab spring was born.

today a monument stands to his sacrifice in his hometown of city boys there's a widespread belief however that the changes in tunisia in there but. we've asked for a very few things to upgrade the school to lead families with disabled children and some jobs but no one wants to listen to the people haven't got money thing those who came from abroad and reaped all the benefits they're all in the new government but the simple folk are left with nothing. to give the tunisian revolution was led by young people demanding freedom of speech and greater present day but the voice of news according to some has been silenced. the new government is comprised of the elderly and that shows what kind of new tunisia we're talking about the main problem is the political parties which haven't given a chance to the young people who gave their lives and blood for the revolution in the western. it has hailed the tunisian revolution as the beginning of

a new democratic chapter in the history of the country and the entire northern african region a year has passed and people who live here still a very few of the changes they have asked for have actually taken place they are going to everything is still as it used to be delusions have come and gone and the town has an. unemployment it's still the same it's not the only things that changed you can now express your opinion but the rouge main goals haven't been accomplished . the fervor which sparked a revolution in the slow burn for no one but if the grievances which inspired it for me so with the people's inspiration to vote again it goes courting the city was it tunisia. and egypt which followed tunisia on the road to revolution is bracing itself for get to move on and and at least nine have died and over three hundred fifty have been injured since friday after the ana moved in to despise demonstrators at an anti moocher protest camp on cairo's tahrir square and

a flop in a reporter for the jerusalem post says the army's frightened at the prospect of egypt being run by is the most political party. they're a symptom of a wider power struggle that's taking place between the military and the islamist led parliament the new parliament that's been elected that's being elected in phases i think that the military is very frightened of the prospect of an egypt that would be led by islamist political parties they're worried about security they're worried about the economy what this could do to tourism and they're very reluctant they've gotten used to being in power for many many years since the fifty's i think they're very reluctant to let go of that power i don't think that there actually has been a revolution yet i think that what's happened is that the figurehead of the military regime has been deposed very dramatically certainly that's a hugely significant event it's an earthquake but i thought i would define a revolution as the ousting of the elites from power and i think that the elites in egypt which which are the military i think they're still in power and once the

military is gone from power fully gone from power then i think we can describe what we're seeing in egypt as a revolution until then when i think these two sides are stuck in their current position fighting it out through a range of ways and one of these ways is street battles between the military security forces and the people so i think it's going to be unpredictable violent in some cases and it's also going to damage egypt's ability to maintain law and order on its streets. people have been reportedly killed across syria as the arab league demands damascus lexeme international observers threatening to turn to the u.n. security council for action if their request is refused it comes as russia hospital with a new draft resolution to the u.n. security council on the sea we have moscow's demanding boss the assad regime and the opposition and the violence and begin rooting out foreign intervention on the sanctions of the u.s. and its allies launched the russian motion amended seek to put the blame for the

bloodshed on the mosque alone and that's despite thousands of army defectors claiming to be fighting to bring down the. this is so the come in the program a soldier's bravery of the trail find out in late summer the u.s. army private accused of passing military secrets to the whistle blowing web site if we can leaks but his supporters seeing him as a hero not a traitor. as a russian have successfully launches from the european space port in french guiana look at what this journey to the stars means for the. president and survived by it has announced a curfew in a town in the west of the central asian country where riots on friday left at least eleven people dead and he also signed the situation has now under control than the rest was initiated by a group of striking oil workers during state celebrations marking twenty years of independence that is a local journalist and she told r.t.

what happened oh workers in generalising have been striking for fairly long already for several months if this race were even out but the reemerged in full force yesterday that was deliberate in its twentieth anniversary so there was a big day age and instead of a concert and a celebration there was a riot and people killed other people who were on the video those people the old marched in person their guns uniforms this is really strange for a strike. two uniformed you know and they were moving into organized purpose but it looks like that all workers are in your way whether they're demanding we're just being led by somebody or they're taking part. but. since they were just rushing things around. and there were behaving too organized and they were talking authorities and at least the police came in so it looked like.

these are just really grassroots trying to huge the ground and the ground was sort of what hugh. it looks like this is being. this could be external forces like other countries in delusions or this could be sort of local forces who are interested in all of. this is george and there is said to be very calm and steady will not do the square nobody is raging or the internet going to ocean and or years and years and everything. falls under curfew restriction that has been implemented. by new york or has all that iran provided material support to al qaeda for the nine eleven attacks but the hearing was settled by default because the defendants including iran's supreme leader did not appear in court professor paul sheldon food from california state university says this is part of the can paint to demonize iran and begin plans to attack the country. this is what we call

a kangaroo court in america this is totally outrageous that civilized by the american government if we want to look for blame we can start with saudi arabia where most of the hijackers came from having lived and worked in arab countries i can tell you there is no way that the arab government did not know what was going on in saudi arabia we could look to germany where many of them live we could look at american flight schools we could look at f.b.i. agents reported disappear ears in the spurious did nothing. iraq and has no involvement in this whatsoever no they are neoconservative warmongers are trying to demonize iran even more and build up that war and unfortunately the average american voter knows so little we knew congresswoman michele bachmann a couple weeks ago was able to say that she would close the american embassy and bring home the ambassador and staff and that wasn't subjected to great ridicule every american i've talked to so far doesn't know anything wrong with that statement right after nine eleven i was shocked that the iranian leadership said

they would permit american military to use their airspace to attack afghanistan that they would help any downed pilots they that they would help supply anything else they bent over backwards to help america beyond belief that iranian journalists had been murdered by the taliban there was no love lost between the taliban and the iranians. a u.s. military court has opened pretrial hearings in the case of alleged whistleblower bradley manning by rejecting a defense request that the presiding officer should step down they claim his other role investigating they found a wiki leaks that makes him biased private manning has served as an intelligence analyst in baghdad is accused of leaking classified military and diplomatic data to the whistle blowing web site has already been held in detention for nineteen months and could face life in prison or even execution of convicted and kevin zeese from the bradley manning support network says this soldier will hardly receive

a fair trial after president obama has stated that he is guilty. we think that manning is not someone who is a traitor he was. documents to foreign enemies he didn't profit from them he is accused of giving them to the media and what he gave to me were allegedly were very low level documents low security in that i probably should not have been divisive i darkens at all were also worried i mean you can't get a fair trial president obama has already announced that he's guilty he's the commander in chief it's a command structure in the military cerebrally who is in the. judge the jury under president obama's command and their careers on the land line they're no choice but to say meaning is guilty if they want to keep their military career since the president or said he's guilty soldier who is in that situation is a choice of ignoring the nuremberg principles and becoming complicit in these crimes or exposing those crimes meaning is guilty of what he's accused what do you get what he's guilty of is telling the truth telling the truth so the american what we can see what the u.s.

military and state department actually are doing is trials embarrassment to the u.s. military and the united states it shows a great deal of fear of the truth and fear of the truth is what's driving this prosecution. russia's own national interest will guide its actions on the global arena president that have spelled out the country's priorities and the recent rift with the u.s. and its missile defense shield in europe which most poses a threat to its security when washington fails to give britain assurances that the show is not aimed at russia moscow deployed a radar system on its western most border. we must not let ourselves be intimidated or confused we must clearly understand the goals we are heading for politics is a concrete think whatever friendly relations we have if we are not being heard we will answer that's what i had to do it wasn't against obama but against the policy that the us has adopted if they continue to be rude we will respond if they hear

our concerns we will work together. and in the wake of protests against this month's election results which have been held across russia the president said his saw and heard the people's concerns but he said political changes in the country should be started from within and never be a result of outside pressure and one rally wrapped up in moscow on saturday with a turnout of some one and a half thousand supporters of the yabloko party which didn't make it past the seven percent threshold needed to win seats in the state duma moscow's blocking their square where they gathered became the focal point for protesters last week when tens of thousands converged to voice their dissatisfaction with the poll results and on our web site home you'll find for analysis of all the post-election events so sold exclusive videos photo galleries and much more. and you zealand aircraft has come to the aid of a russian fishing vessel that's been stranded and talks like ice for two days flies delivered fuel and other equipment to help the crew of search to pump out water

which has been leaking into the how the ship called spotter has been hold about one and a half meters below the water line and crewmembers had to ditch cargo to reduce the ship's weight for a scare say if they succeeded they were so it could be repaired allowing the troll it to sail out of trouble. a russian built soyuz rocket has successfully blasted off from the european spaceport in french guiana it was carrying french and chile the spy satellites into orbit french observation stations will be gathering military intelligence and providing three d. images of targets on earth while the chilean eye in the sky will mainly be used for marking farmland and it's only the second time russian rocket has launched from outside the former soviet union following a similar successful mission last month also from french guiana after america's space shuttle program was shut down so use remains the only means of taking people and satellites into space. at least fifty occupy wall street protesters have been

arrested after they broke into a private park in manhattan as the movement marks its third month anniversary of the demonstrators who were victims from their zuccotti park headquarters last known as the time to set up a new camp in the city's draw to park road tolls and the fence around the private grounds and use the ladders to climb inside these. protesters claiming that the occupiers had not got permission to enter the park where turning violent. and. web page at home and our correspondent and if this is a trick and i was witnessing there i think new york the late. you know now a bill being debated by the u.s. congress to stop online piracy could mean they start a web censorship in america according to critics of the proposal internet activist irish wolf says the move could also cripple copyright protection as we know it the

government doesn't just take down the infringing material it takes on the site entirely and it does it without even a trial to find out whether it's illegal or not and as you know copyright laws are extremely complicated there are lots of things that look like copyright infringement that turn out to be licensed in one way or another part of this is a larger crackdown and freedom of speech there's pretty much no other law that would give the government the power to censor the internet that wouldn't be laughed out of congress you know if you said the government needed to censor the internet to protect national security it would be widely seen in america is totally unacceptable and beyond the pale but by using copyright as a wedge issue suddenly we're able to put this power in the hands of the government and then once they have it it can be expanded and expanded to deal with a whole range of other things one of the interesting provisions in this law is it doesn't just shut down websites it also increases the penalties for people caught in gauging and copyright infringement so for example if you make a video on you tube of yourself singing and copyrighted song this bill would increase the penalty to that to ten years in jail so there's all sorts of people

who do these things that would just be considered part of natural life as a teenager that now are facing huge felony charges as a result of this law. so freedom of speech often means that in much of the mainstream media and they can also be freedom in terms of accuracy with the facts and knowing our finest our own president in new york ask people whether they're tired of a subjective view of things. are you sick of the media being biased this week let's talk about that do you feel like the media's biased sure they are the discredit pick the right one that you want to listen to is the right one around one no. is going to listen to them all and make up your own why do you case a political party is it government is in power but i can't. see things on the media i absolutely do think it's important for the noose

a try to be on bias but unfortunately everybody brings their own slant to their reporting i don't think it's avoidable even though it's desirable obvious possible for anybody beyond bias so why would we expect a news organization to be unbiased because they're professionals who journalists there's a job but they're still human. well they have a lot of stuff you either read or the news is untrue as a lot of the television isn't that a shame the news would be untrue. but the thing is it sells papers and it sells news and people watch it people have to channel that bother you know not at all just the way the world. believe what you want to believe do you think it would help people be more informed if news organizations admitted their bias. i think sober people wouldn't believe them and then they'd turn to whoever was bias anyway there's a lot of people that think the some channels are fair and balanced other channels

aren't leaning in any direction well i mean i think we all know that's not true right we all this into the news every single day and we all hear the ridiculousness on both sides yeah but i think fox particularly will report both sides in both views and they have people of opposing views on very frequently they don't think they're biased that i think they themselves they may be slant but i think it's a moniker that people have put on them. i don't there's no good here but they are they are but i bet ok they should just admit it all they do i think i think some know their parent base orders a new person to be these experts they come in every individual has his own personal bias you get away from that maybe instead of demanding our media be less biased we just start demanding the admit their bias and maybe that bill at least be accountable for the opinion they report.

in more news tonight it's a massive lines triggered by an unexpected topical story told over four hundred people in the southern philippines with about two hundred missing many residents who were asleep when the flood water tore through towns overnight after hours of torrential rain turns of science have sought refuge in evacuation centers across several provinces. a ship carrying more than three hundred illegal migrants from the middle east has sunk off indonesia's jobber island only sixty seven people have been rescued so far and hundreds are still missing as search teams continue working on the spot. the water ship was wrecked by strong waves meanwhile local media reports that the boat was carrying more than twice its capacity which they blame for that accident. israeli soldiers have killed one palestinian civilian and injured two others on the border with gaza a military patrol reportedly opened fire after hearing a large explosion aiming for what they thought was an area known for terrorist activity gaza has retaliated by launching rockets into israel though no casualty is

treated. the united nations has released the assets of to libya in banks in an effort to ease the country's financial troubles that will allow the libyan government access to billions of dollars of funds from abroad sanctions were imposed earlier this year on banks formally controlled by the alstad leader colonel gadhafi but even economies suffered significantly after the uprising that. toppled good of his regime with the lucrative oil industry eventually going to hold. up next we head to one of russia's most restive republics and find out about the battle to stop young people from falling prey to terrorists. so doug it's time often makes headlines for the wrong reasons with frequent reports of insurgency and instability high unemployment and low living standards are

sometimes blamed as root causes which help feed militancy on his medical show has more. the caucasian republic of dagestan in seoul for russia is one of the most volatile areas in the country groups of militants operating in this part of the caucasus are reported to have strong links with al qaida look to exalt people in when they're young and to tell rays are constantly carried out in a time to eradicate the problem although militants usually target police and government officials tourism has also been born into the lives of many innocent families across the region because of that a number of organisations have sprung up fighting for victims' rights and helping is also fucked its peace their lives back together i had it turns to spend the day would speak. after losing her son three years ago has dedicated her life battling for her people's future. it's a cold mr winter morning in the street line

a sign of as always is first in the office the telephone starts to ring right as she enters the room it is the usual start of the day for the mothers of dagestan a human rights organization created four years ago and now known across the region today's headline is heading to the outskirts of the capital a single mother of four lives her husband was killed by robbers and she was left with nothing but her children will sit on the brings food clothes and talks to her talking as soon as the most important part offering reassurance to victims that they have not been forgotten or gravel should not be ruled out organization mostly helps women it doesn't matter what situation they're in during need to come to help them with most of these women don't know their rights or who to ask who help three years ago said lana was in the same position when one day her son failed to return home she didn't know what to do and most valuable time that have been used to rescue him. if i knew then what i know today my rights the right people i could

have saved him i could have found out where he was going to die. something with you and your. son was accused of helping terrorists in dagestan she fears he was killed but where she still doesn't know these accusations are common in this region young and immature people often become the victims of terrorist brainwashing high unemployment also boasts this quite often people that fall under the influence of those with no financial or social prospects and see going into the forest use them as and for joining terrorist as the only way out for them that's what happened with mariam and it cost her her life she had a difficult childhood was raised without a father and her mother couldn't provide for the family her mother honeymoon remembers how when her daughter started working at the market she met very religious people that. at first i thought there was nothing bad in that but then my

little girl started to change she talked a lot about being a real nuisance or going to paradise i tried to talk her out of it but she never listened. to her new friends. new friends turned out to be extremists and the last year of her life she disappeared for several months the next time her mother saw her face was on t.v. in a report on the latest special forces raid against suspected terrorists these doubly skirmishes are part of a bigger conflict being played out across the north caucasus region illiteracy led by dog who is russia's most wanted militant and on the list of america's most wanted terrorists want to establish a pan caucasian islamist state. in the last decade parts of pakistan has become really just theoretical ice this region is now the heart of precious islamic terrorist problem and almost every day the authorities are engaged in shootouts with terrorists and very often that happens even in the capital city of the region

. locals say it's hardly surprising most. i'm so turning to radical islam as they see it as an alternative to the hard life in the region the older members of the community believe a large proportion of those who went to the fore is a simply bandits from and to such despite a younger generation. if anyone told me thirty years ago that life in dagestan would be like what we see now i would never believe that. the locals want the rule of law enforced and respected again every turn to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many minds in the question r.c. close up in the republic of dagestan. almost counting will be serving up a special course for adventures cities but before the hot how bring every copy of the top stories this hour in just a few moments. this

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